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...Margaret Reed, Director of the BPHC’s Asthma Prevention and Control Program, said the commission has already devoted significant resources to protect the public health of the residents of Boston, with special attention to vulnerable populations in inner-city communities...
Ford loves customers like Gail Reed. Last April, a few months before 0% financing wiped out profit margins on such standard models as Windstars and Tauruses, Reed, an Atlanta accountant, saw a picture of a pearl-white Thunderbird convertible and fell in love. She agreed to pay the full $39,000 sticker price and willingly waited nearly a year for delivery, driving off with her baby a few weeks ago. "I've always owned sensible cars," says Reed, 43 and single. "Then I started thinking, this T-Bird is a great-looking, fun car. If I'm ever going...
...online service Daly uses, called Netflix, just passed the 500,000-subscriber mark, riding a boom in DVDs and discontentment with the old rental model. Indeed, founder Reed Hastings got the idea for the company when he was hit with a $40 late fee for a copy of Apollo 13 back in 1998. "If I'd returned it on time," he says, "we wouldn't be here today." Now Jupiter Media Metrix rates Netflix.com as one of the 10 busiest e-commerce sites, a list that also includes eBay and Amazon. Every day 82,000 DVDs roll through the conveyor...
...Disneyland Paris, the average visitor spends ?43 a day, about 20% less than a visitor to the California or Florida parks. Nigel Reed, an analyst at BNP Paribas, says part of that difference is a function of factors like climate - you'll drink more sodas on a hot, sunny Florida day than on a drizzly, gray one in the Paris suburbs. While Euro Disney knows the U.S. isn't necessarily the best predictor of Continental attitudes toward amusement, both analysts and executives say there is room for spending growth...
...competition doesn't hurt Euro Disney, timing might - again. As in the early '90s, "the economic outlook for Europe is pretty unclear," says BNP Paribas' Reed. "They're adding something like 50% extra capacity when we've seen both slowing in European economies and several other parks open." Are consumers ready to spring for that three-day, two-night short break at Disney, or would they be just as happy to take the kids for an afternoon at a smaller, less expensive, less splashy park nearby...